Spain-Italy

Spain Desk

Spanish Desk

Most issues that we deal with, mainly pertain to the matters of our specialty, especially those characterized by particularly complex and/or relevance of the values involved.

Our support is characterized by the proactive approach and by our ability to identify critical points in legal terms: our natural mindset leads us to listen more carefully, to help preventing and reducing legal risks, and to communicate with you in a clear and understandable way even for the most questionable or intricate issues.

In addition, our client focus has allowed us to address a large number of different issues, contributing to broaden our skills and competence to the benefit of clients, to whom we can ensure full legal assistance, thanks to the professionals who work with us and that allow us to cover almost all areas of law.

Extraordinary corporate transactions

We can assist companies in virtually every industry to properly address M&A deals and other extraordinary transactions, financial operations and international development, unique initiatives or projects of a complex nature.

We specialize in the following areas:

legal advice and assistance throughout Italy

assistance in the identification, negotiation and conclusion of extraordinary transactions

counseling, support and assistance with contracts and international law in more than 60 countries

legal advice and assistance to 360 degrees

advisory initiatives about private equity and project finance

legal advice for the management of complex projects and activities

International context

International negotiations and contracts bear aspects of particular complexity with regard to the choice of law, the jurisdiction, the system of liability (contractual and extra-contractual) with marked differences between relations with third countries or with EU countries (for EU legislation in addition to international treaties).
The risk of unpleasant surprises is high: some cases of liability in tort can result in enormous damages, as well as potentially elusive case may lead to heavy protests from the tax auditors.

Almost always, the player who handles the legal aspects, rather than put up with them, wins: taking care of the legal aspects from the beginning, and being assisted in the early contacts, is crucial in order to avoid pre-contractual liability.

We collaborate with professionals and law firms in more than 150 jurisdictions, and we are able to provide international advice, assistance, legal protection and safeguard in civil, commercial, contractual, criminal, corporate and IP law, as well as M&A (mergers & acquisitions) and financial assistnce.

We can do it thanks to the consolidated experience in legal due diligence and legal risk management for business, many years of experience in M&A and corporate finance, in real estate, in assisting negotiations and investment, in the drafting and revision of contracts and international documents.

Employment

We deal with labor disputes at the sole protection of the employers' side: the appearance in court of the employer is the crucial step where most of the opportunity to be able to defend his case need to be played, not recoverable later (even when appeal) because of disqualifications imposed by the law.

When the worker sues the employer, the required activities are carried out within the short time limits imposed: facing them properly requires constant updating, organization, operational practice and mindset specific to the protection of the employers.

The specific legal procedure of work, sets specific terms and conditions of the defendant's appearance in court (almost always the employer): in the defense, any counterclaims and the procedural exceptions (excluding those not detectable by the judge) must be proposed; it is required to take a precise position on the facts alleged by the plaintiff, offering all the defenses in fact and in law, and indicating all the evidences of which the employer foresees to make use, and depositing those based on documents.

The employer must appear in court in full, and is not allowed to introduce new elements: this means the employer cannot repair this later on.

Among his experiences, Graziotto signed the renewal of the national labor contract for ANCEF, representing the employers' side after having driven in first negotiations and drafting of contractual settlement.